The Urologist closed its submission desk when the last issue went online in 2015. This page keeps the rules that applied to the eight published issues, because they still govern what may be done with the papers: who holds copyright, what the licence allows, and what the journal promised authors about their data.
Online Submissions
Submission was electronic from end to end. An author registered with the journal, logged in and worked through a five-step upload: metadata, manuscript file, supplementary files, confirmation and, finally, the declaration that the work was not under consideration anywhere else. Nothing was sent by post and no processing fee was charged at any stage — not for submission, not for publication, and not for colour reproduction of photographs.
The journal ran on Open Journal Systems, so the submission queue, the review correspondence and the proof cycle all lived in the same place. The publishing system page explains what that means for anyone trying to retrieve an old submission record.
Author Guidelines
Manuscripts were accepted in six sections: Originale Articles, Review, Case Report, Special Issue, Short Communications and Editorials comment. Open submission was available for original articles, reviews, case reports and short communications; special issues and editorial comments were commissioned. Short communications were defined narrowly — brief reports that were adequately designed, not preliminary notes.
Three expectations shaped what the editors accepted:
- Validity before novelty. Reviewers were asked whether the work was valid and coherent, whether the writing was comprehensible and how interesting the article was. A manuscript without a significant message was rejected before formal review.
- Full data welcome. As an electronic-only journal, The Urologist invited large data sets, large numbers of illustrations and moving pictures, and data in formats other software can read directly.
- Linked references. Authors were asked to create all relevant links — to PubMed, to sequence and other databases, and to other papers — so that a reader could verify a claim without leaving the article.
Decisions arrived within seven days of submission, and corrected proofs were expected back within three days. Papers were published online immediately on acceptance rather than waiting for an issue to close.
Copyright Notice
Authors kept copyright. Every article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence, which allows copying, redistribution and adaptation, including commercial use, provided the original work is credited. The journal also allows authors to self-archive the final accepted version on any OAI-compliant institutional or subject-based repository, with no embargo.
In practice this means a reader may put a figure from an article into a lecture, and a library may hold a permanent copy, without asking anyone. What the licence does not permit is removing the attribution or implying that the journal endorsed a derivative work.
Privacy Statement
The names and email addresses entered on this site are used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party. Registration data collected by the original platform served one function: sending the table of contents of each new issue to readers who asked for it, and carrying review correspondence between editors, authors and reviewers.
The current site serves static pages. It does not run a submission queue, does not hold a reader register and does not set advertising or tracking cookies. Questions about data recorded by the journal before 2015 go to the publisher's secretariat.
Where urology manuscripts go now
Authors looking for a home for a urology manuscript should consider the journals indexed by the association itself and the open access titles of the European Association of Urology. The information for authors page keeps the practical steps that still apply to work published here, including how to cite an article from this archive.